A 'DRAGONFLY' LEADED GLASS AND BRONZE FLOOR LAMP

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A 'DRAGONFLY' LEADED GLASS AND BRONZE FLOOR LAMP
BY TIFFANY STUDIOS

The domed shade with irregular border formed by red-eyed dragonflies with reticulated bronze wings of striated blue and green glass, with pale yellow, amber, opalescent and mauve "jewels" on a ground deepening from pale yellow to amber to mauve, stamped TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK, the base cast with pods on four petal feet and a fluted standard in a greenish brown patina
64in. (162.6cm.) high, 22in. (55.9cm.) diameter of shade

Lot Essay

The dragonfly model was designed by Clara Driscoll and was awarded a prize at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900. Robert Koch, Louis C. Tiffany. Rebel in Glass, Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1964, p. 134 and pl. iv for discussion of designer and illustration of another dragonfly lamp; Yvonne Brunhammer et al., Art Nouveau Belgium France (exh. cat.) Institute for the Arts, Rice University, 1976, p. 147, fig. 177 for discussion and illustration of the model; Hugh F. McKean, The "Lost" Treasures of Louis Comfort Tiffany, Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York, 1980, pp. 187, 190, fig. 183 for discussion and illustration of the model.